Whenever the weather licks the pilot instead of him lickin' the weather, he's finished. The first time makes the second time easie...r. And the first thing he knows, he's in trouble when the weather is perfect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

With two sons born eighteen months apart, I operated mainly on automatic pilot through the ceaseless activity of their early child...hood. I remember opening the refrigerator late one night and finding a roll of aluminum foil next to a pair of small red tennies. Certain that I was responsible for the refrigerated shoes, I quickly closed the door and ran upstairs to make sure I had put the babies in their cribs instead of the linen closet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The wounded surgeon plies the steelThat questions the distempered part;...Beneath the bleeding hands we feelThe sharp compassion of the healer's artResolving the enigma of the fever chart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

... what a family is without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I thi...nk, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even though ...it overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »